The Lazarus effect

More than five million people are infected with HIV/Aids in South Africa. But while politicians argue and the death toll rises, one extraordinary project is bringing hope to the hopeless. Project Update - 10 Dec 2005

Access to medicines

mendment to WTO TRIPS agreement makes access to affordable medicines even more bleak

MSF expresses concern that patients the world-over will have to pay the price. Project Update - 6 Dec 2005

HIV/AIDS

Forcing patients to pay for AIDS care endangers treatment success

The research revealed that in Lagos, Nigeria, among patients who had to pay for their own AIDS care, 44% had multiple treatment interruptions or took insufficient dosages due to lack of funds. The medical effects of this are extremely worrying. Press Release - 6 Dec 2005

Liberia

After seven years of support and reconstruction, MSF phases out its role in Redemption Hospital

"Redemption Hospital has gone through a great transformation over the past years - it is now a well-equipped facility with 150 beds and this is benefiting the whole community," said Pascal Duchemin, Head of Mission in Liberia. "By providing access to free quality health care, it is having a big positive impact on the health of the population of Bushrod Island and of Monrovia." Project Update - 5 Dec 2005

Burundi

Lifeline for victims of sexual aggression

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In Burundi, a clinic is helping to counter the HIV threat posed by rape. Project Update - 3 Dec 2005

Democratic Republic of Congo

Attack on camp for displaced people in Katanga

Civil and military authorities are obstructing efforts by humanitarian organisations to assess the situation and the needs of the populations to the north of Mitwaba and Dubie. Press Release - 2 Dec 2005

HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS and children

In the western world, mother-to-child transmission can be avoided in more than 99% of cases. This is far from being the case in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa, yet this is where the crushing majority of HIV infected children are found. In Mbagathi, 95% of children infected by HIV contracted the virus during pregnancy, birth or breast-feeding. Project Update - 1 Dec 2005

Kenya

The dilemma of HIV pediatrics

The figures show that 33% of children with HIV positive mothers are born with the disease and 50% of suspected HIV positive children are dead by the time they reach two years of age. Project Update - 1 Dec 2005

Kenya

HIV does not mean a death sentence

"HIV is not a death sentence. It's a new life that starts" - Portrait of Siama Musine, 30 years old, on antiretroviral treatment since April 2004. Project Update - 1 Dec 2005

Uganda

Kibera: one of 1.4 million Aids orphans

"My friends would avoid me if I told them I have HIV/Aids" - Hawa, 13, on antiretroviral treatment since 2003, and her grandmother, Hamida Project Update - 1 Dec 2005

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